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SENIOR TEAM

MATTHEW NUSS

President

Matthew has been and continues to be a flag-bearer in the independent luxury-boutique vertical. As ZaZa’s
leader of revenue creation, guest experience, sales & marketing, business, and now development strategies, he
and his team continue to generate market-leading revenues, profits, and owner returns. Despite the onslaught
of indy “wannabes”, ZaZa remains the true independent in the boutique segment that outperforms the “wolves
in sheep’s clothing” such as Marriott’s Autograph Collection, Hilton’s Curio, Hyatt’s Unbound and Thompson,
and IHG’s Kimpton, etc. In addition Matthew and this team easily outperform the similarly thinly-veiled
“independent” arms of the typical brand management companies such as Aimbridge, Davidson, HEI, etc.

Prior to ZaZa Hospitality, LLC, Matthew was a founding Principal and Executive Vice President of Valencia
Group where he single-handedly developed the Hotel Valencia brand and positioned both Hotel Valencia
Santana Row in Silicon Valley and Hotel Valencia Riverwalk in San Antonio as RevPAR, F&BPOR, and TRevPOR
leaders. Before Valencia, he enjoyed a successful 10 year career with Omni Hotels where he was named General
Manager of the Year and earned the reputation as a turnaround expert for the company in such flagship hotels
as the Omni Berkshire Place in Midtown Manhattan, the Omni Parker House in Boston, the Omni CNN Center in
Atlanta and the Omni Tucson National Resort & Spa. Matthew has a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the
University of Kansas and attended graduate business school at the University of Nebraska.

VINCENT MENNELLA ZACH SCHATZ

Chief Financial Officer Senior Financial Analyst

As Chief Financial Officer, Vince leads the Zach brings with him a wealth of experience
finance team of ZaZa Hospitality, LLC to from both public accounting and private
include accounting, systems and controls, enterprise. He currently works as a Senior
banking and cash management, internal and Financial Analyst for Snowmass Creek Capital
external audit processes, risk management where he helps oversee a diverse portfolio of
and information technology. Vincent was investments while developing new investment
most recently Vice President Finance with opportunities. Zach works with the ZaZa
Benchmark Hospitality International, Division Hospitality team to underwrite development
Vice President Finance with Sage Hospitality deals and source financing on behalf of S.C.C.
Resources and Vice President-Regional Prior to joining Snowmass, Zach worked as a
Controller at Destination Hotels & Resorts. In Senior Auditor for Ernst & Young. In addition
addition, he was Vice President of Hospitality to a CPA license, Zach holds a bachelor’s
Accounting with Wyndham International. degree in Business Administration as well as
Vincent holds a bachelor’s degree in a master’s degree in Accounting from Texas
Economics and Business Management from Christian University.
Northeastern Illinois University and a masters
of Business Administration from Illinois
Institute of Technology.

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